Sr. Director Operational Excellence

JOB SUMMARY The Sr Director of Operational Excellence leads the company's continuous improvement strategy across all manufacturing sites.  This role will build the process, capabilities, tools, and governance necessary to create a consistent and sustainable approach to continuous improvement across all factories. The Sr Director will establish a standardized manufacturing excellence framework grounded in lean principles, structured problem solving, loss elimination, standard work, and performance management.  KEY RESPONSIBILITIESLead the CI change effort. Develop and lead the company’s Continuous Improvement strategy and roadmap across all factories.Establish a common CI methodology, tools, governance, terminology, and expectations across the manufacturing network.Establish common standards for Lean practices, structured problem solving, daily management, standard work, and performance improvement.Establish and advance Lean manufacturing practices including standard work, Kaizen, 5S, value-stream mapping, visual management, root-cause analysis, waste elimination, centerlining, and structured problem solving.Develop CI training, tools, playbooks and learning programs.Develop a network of plant-level Continuous Improvement champions to accelerate adoption and share knowledge.Manage performance. Work with the Plant Leadership Team to track plant targets and KPIs regularly and set action plans and follow-up meetings to close gaps.Own KPI visibility. Manage the daily, weekly, and monthly KPI charting and posting process to keep teams accountable.Simplify data. Use Power BI and SAP to turn complex operational data into clear, usable information for plant and operations leaders.Apply analytics. Use statistics and other analytical methods to identify improvement opportunities and support decisions.Track savings. Implement and manage a cost savings tracking process aligned with corporate standards and deliver against savings targets.Partner on safety. Partner with the Safety Director to embed safety into improvement work, including incident investigation, hazard reduction, and safety considerations in kaizen events.Perform other duties as assigned